Does AI make you nervous?// Do you get the feeling that AI is changing everything?// I do, and it worries me.// Sometimes, I see a future in which AI does everything.// AI will drive our cars.// Clean our houses.// Cook and serve our meals.// Teach our kids.// In that future, we’ll be able to sit around all day, playing video games, watching movies and streaming K-Pop.// We’ll all be happy couch potatoes.// Sometimes I see a dark and frightening future.// Strong, autonomous robots will be in charge of everything.// They will take our jobs, run our government.// AI will rule the world, and we will just be slaves.// We’ll sit around all day playing video games, watching movies and streaming K-Pop.// We’ll all be unhappy couch potatoes.// If such thoughts bother you, too, you will be happy to learn that not every scientist is trying to make strong autonomous robots.// Some scientists, like Professor Okada Michio at Toyohashi University of Technology, are working on what they call “weak robots:”// Friendly little machines that work with people rather than in place of people.// Read all about it in this lesson.//